Volume 37, No. 2

Taking Multicultural, Anti-Racist Education Seriously 

By Enid Lee, interviewed by Barbara Miner

One of the most-read articles Rethinking Schools has published, Miner’s 1991 interview of Enid Lee resounds today.

The Chilling Effects of So-Called Critical Race Theory Bans  

By Laura Beth Kelly, Laura Taylor, Cara Djonko-Moore, and Aixa D. Marchand

Teacher educators describe how teachers interpret Tennessee’s “Prohibited Concepts in Instruction” law; vague language suppresses — educators resist.

The “Learning Loss” Trap

By the editors of Rethinking Schools

This school year, as teachers carefully construct unit plans, build community with students, and navigate ongoing staff shortages, they also have to contend with a barrage of media coverage catastrophizing […]

The First CRT Election

By The editors of Rethinking Schools

Rethinking Schools was glad to see the midterm elections bring significant setbacks to MAGA Republicans and the most egregious “election deniers.” But overall the results were a decidedly mixed bag […]

Rethinking the Inclusive Classroom

As one teacher says, “My students may be little, but that does not mean their emotions are.” A parent of a student with Down syndrome and educators in the same district discuss inclusive teaching strategies and pedagogical risk-taking.

Peacekeepers and Peacemakers

Fifth graders explore what we do when peace doesn’t already exist

By Erin Green

Green and her students critique the idea that good citizens follow rules, and then study activists who make — rather than keep — peace in the face of injustice.

Goodbye to Ari Bloomekatz

This fall, Rethinking Schools’ managing editor Ari Bloomekatz accepted the position of executive editor at the venerable social justice magazine In These Times. We will miss Ari’s humor, imagination, warmth, […]

Welcome, Cierra Kaler-Jones!

Cierra Kaler-Jones becomes Rethinking Schools’ first executive director.